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EDITORIAL: Ideas for Struggles

There has been much discussion in the Philippine movement about the character of the Duterte regime. It has impelled a number of groups to formulate their tactics vis-à-vis the current regime from 'engagement' to 'challenge' and 'resist'.

Recently, the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines have adopted a more combative stance against what they now call the “US-Duterte regime”. The Left-wing leaders in the Duterte government have declared, however, that they will still remain with the Duterte Cabinet.

Editorial

The election of President Duterte marks the end of an era of the post-Marcos "Edsa regimes‟, spanning a period of more than three decades, from Cory Aquino to her son Noynoy Aquino. The masses, frustrated and desperate in the face of the inability of the "Edsa regimes‟ to find lasting solutions to the country‟s ongoing and chronic socio-economic problems, placed Duterte, a warlord, in power. After more than three decades of "Edsa rule" we still face mass unemployment, low wages, an agrarian crisis, acute shortage of housing and little or non-existent social services.